The latin american revolutions from 1804 to 1821 were:
a. unsuccessful and left strong conservative governments in place.
b. unsuccessful and left strong liberal governments in place.
c. successful and had similar styles of government in the various countries.
d. successful and had different styles of government in the various countries.

The answer is:

c. successful and had similar styles of government in the various countries.

Explanation:

Several revolutions  took place during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Latin America, and resulted in the creation of a number of independent countries.

These revolutions followed the American and French Revolution. Haiti, a French slave colony, was the first to follow the United States to independence, during the Haitian Revolution. Creoles in South America, led by Simon Bolivar, priest and revolutionary leader Miguel Hidalgo among others followed with revolutions of their own gaining independence for the rest of Latin America.

As a characteristic the Colonial governments mirrored the home governments.

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: